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Equator-S

In conjunction with ISTP, Germany plans to launch the 240-kg Equator-S spacecraft on a mission to measure atomic particles and electromagnetic fields in a nearly equatorial plane. After insertion into a GTO in 1997 as an Ariane piggyback payload, Equator-S will use a solid propellant motor to raise its apogee to approximately 70,000 km. The Max Planck Institute will manage the mission which will also carry ESA and US scientific instruments (Reference 49).

49. "NASA Seeking Motor for German Satellite", Space News, 20-26 February 1995, p. 2.

Sources and Resources

• Adapted from: Europe and Asia in Space 1993-1994, Nicholas Johnson and David Rodvold [Kaman Sciences / Air Force Phillips Laboratory]

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